5 shows, 5 cities, 5 Halloween parties!
Fri-Oct-27,8pm in St Catherines @ Krav After Dark
Sat-Oct-28,9pm in Stratford     @ Molly Bloom's
Sun-Oct-29,8pm in Toronto       @ May Cafe
Mon-Oct-30,8pm in Hamilton      @ Pearl Company
Tue-Oct-31,8pm in Kitchener     @ KW Boathouse

"Delving so deeply into that record always leaves us speechless", states Ali. "Michael birthed so many incredible tunes over the years, but his collaborations with Quincy Jones on Thriller has to be one of the most towering musical achievements in pop music ever. Using that brilliant material every year on Halloween, as jump-offs for what we do makes for a party that's both danceable, but still rooted in exploratory improvising and deep reaching solos. We approach it the way Miles might have."

The BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO has won 2 National Jazz Awards, 3 Toronto Independent Music Award (lasting year winning the 2016 TIMA for "Jazz Group of the Year" for the second year in a row), a SOCAN music award, a CBC Galaxie Rising Star Award, and an International Independent Music Award for "2015 Jazz-Funk album of the year" for their latest release "Gravitation", which hit number 4 on the iTunes USA jazz charts upon it's release. 

“Awards are nice, naturally, but to dig what Brownman is doing, you’ve got to see him live. I had a chance to do just that over the summer when Brownman fronted his killer trio ... I came away with a blown mind. This guy’s got chops galore, soul to match, and a sense of phrasing that recalls many of the greats, but suggests itself to be his own.”
-- The Buffalo News on the latest slew of awards for the Brownman Electryc Trio
 

St Catherines: Fri-Oct-27
KRAV AFTER DARK, 8:00pm
289 St. Paul St. E., St Catherines, ON   |  1-905-641-5728
www.KravGrill.ca
$15 at the door, $10 advance tix : ADV TICKET PORTAL
Facebook Event: www.facebook.com/events/879101548909244

Stratford: Sat-Oct-28
MOLLY BLOOM's, 9:00pm
26 Brunswick St., Stratford, ON   |  1-519-271-2778
www.MollyBloomsStratford.com
$10 at the door, $7 advance list
[ Email andrew@brownman.com to get on Adv List ]
Facebook Event: www.facebook.com/events/144873936129280

Toronto: Sun-Oct-29
MAY CAFE, 8:00pm (please note the earlier start-time)
876 Dundas St. W., Toronto, ON  | info@maytoronto.com
www.MayToronto.com
$15 at the door, $10 advance list
[ Email andrew@brownman.com to get on Adv List ]
Facebook Event: www.facebook.com/events/1231672753630043

Hamilton: Mon-Oct-30
PEARL COMPANY, 8:00pm
17 Steven St., Hamilton, ON   |  1-905-524-0606
www.ThePearlCompany.ca
$15 at the door, $10 advance list
[ Email andrew@brownman.com get on Adv List ]
Facebook Event: www.facebook.com/events/489732081388635

Kitchener: Tue-Oct-31 - Happy Halloween!
KW BOATHOUSE, 8:00pm (please note the start-time)
57 Jubilee Dr., Kitchener, ON   |  1-519-749-8080
www.KWBoathouse.ca
$15 at the door, $10 advance list
[ Email andrew@brownman.com to get on Adv List ]
Facebook Event: www.facebook.com/events/212725102596511

Heralded as “Canada’s preeminent Jazz trumpeter” by NYC’s Village Voice, Brownman Ali - born on the small Caribbean island of Trinidad, & schooled in NYC - is a multiple award-winning NYC-schooled protégé to his teacher, Grammy-winning trumpet legend, Randy Brecker. Splitting his time between Toronto and New York, he tirelessly leads 7 unique ensembles of his own including the internationally acclaimed Miles Davis influenced BROWNMAN ELECTRYC TRIO, and the award-winning CRUZAO latin-jazz quintet. All these ensembles record under Brownman's own much lauded BROWNTASAURAS RECORDS label, established in 2009. In high demand in the studio world with over 300 CD appearances to date, Brownman delivers stylistically authentic horn playing over a wide range of styles from bebop to hiphop having worked with the likes of Guru's Jazzmatazz (replacing Donald Byrd in that primordial ensemble), Mos Def, KRS-1, Quincy Jones, Paul Simon, Jay-z, Missy Elliot, Mingus Dynasty Big Band, Gary Bartz, Chucho Valdes & far too many more to name here. He is considered to be one of the most unique and provocative improvising trumpet players in the nation today and is widely regarded as a vanguard for the evolution of Jazz in Canada.

A highly decorated player, Brownman's awards & accolades include 2 National Jazz Awards (with 11 nominations over the years), Montreal Jazz Fest's "Grand Prix Du Jazz" award, a CBC Galaxie Rising Star award, a SOCAN composers award, an International Independent Music Award for "Album of the Year", 3 Toronto Independent Music Award "jazz artist of the year" (7 nominations), a Black Canadian Award nomination for "Jazz Musician of the Year", a Caribbean Music & Entertainment Award for "Jazz Artist Of The Year", an induction into the WHO'S WHO IN BLACK CANADA, a BRAVO! channel documentary on his life, NOW magazine naming him "Toronto's Best Jazz Musician", CBC Radio Canada named him "one of the most recorded trumpet players in Canadian history", NPR in New York calls him "the new standard in electric jazz", the Trinidad & Tobago Consulate General awarded him with a citation for being a "Distinguished National of Trinidad", is listed by Air Canada as one of the "Top 10 reasons to visit Toronto".

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